2017-04-18
20 分钟We certainly disagree about aesthetic judgments in a range of cases. But is anyone right? Is there no disputing about taste? Are all tastes equal? Elisabeth Schellekens Damman discusses disagreement about taste in this episode of Aesthetics Bites. Aesthetics Bites is a podcast series of interviews with top thinkers in the philosophy of art. It is a collaboration betwen the London Aesthetics Forum and Philosophy Bites and is made possible by a grant from the British Society of Aesthetics.
This is Aesthetics Bytes, a series for philosophy bytes.
With me, Nigel Warburton, and me, David Edmonds.
Aesthetics Bites is made in association with the London Aesthetics Forum and made possible by a grant from the British Society of Aesthetics.
I think Mozart is a better composer than Beethoven.
You disagree?
I think Dickens is a better writer than Trollope.
You disagree?
I think van Gogh is a better artist than Monet.
You disagree?
Is one of us right and one of us wrong?
Here's Elizabeth Shelikan's demagne, Elisabeth Shellekin's demas.
Welcome to aesthetics bites.
Thank you very much for having me.
The topic we're going to focus on is disagreement about taste.
I wonder if you could begin by giving an example of people disagreeing about taste.
Well, one of the most discussed or frequently used examples is an example that Hume outlines in his essay from 1757 of the standard of taste about a keg of wine.
And two men, well educated, cultivated men, who drink some of the wine in the keg and are asked to comment on the contents or the specific taste, describe their taste experience, as it were.
And one of them refers to a slightly metallic or iron taste in the wine, and the other one says that actually he can feel kind of a leathery taste in the wine, and they are more or less ridiculed by their audience who think this is ridiculous.
And it's probably used as also kind of point about the snobbery of some people who have specific views about wine.
But when they come to the end of the keg, they discover at the bottom of the keg that there is an iron key with a leather thong.